Posted on 07/04/2018 11:12:47 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says he is worried that the Russians “never left,” raising the specter that Moscow is looking to interfere in the upcoming midterm elections through cyber or other means.
“I am concerned that the Russians never left,” Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) told CBS News when asked about his concerns about threats to the 2018 midterm elections.
Quigley also alleged that Russia-linked hackers breached “somewhere between 20 and 40 state board of elections,” including the Illinois voter database, in 2016 and alleged that states are not prepared for future interference efforts by Russia.
“First, they attacked our election infrastructure. They hacked into somewhere between 20 and 40 state board of elections, including, in August of 2016, my own state of Illinois. They hacked and dumped emails into political parties and individuals. They weaponized social media,” Quigley told Michael Morell, host of CBS News’ “Intelligence Matters” podcast and former acting director of the CIA.
“This is a great concern,” he said.
The Department of Homeland Security has said that Russian hackers targeted election systems in 21 states as part of a broader plot to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and, in a small number of cases, actually breached state systems. One such successful attack was directed at Illinois’ state voter registration database, though officials maintain that no data was altered or deleted.
U.S. officials maintain that the systems targeted were not involved in actual vote counting, and that no evidence exists suggesting votes were changed. Voting machines, were are typically not connected to the internet and are stored in secure facilities, are much more difficult to breach, experts say.
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[A Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says he is worried that the Russians “never left,” raising the specter that Moscow is looking to interfere in the upcoming midterm elections through cyber or other means. ]
Every time they lose they see Russians in their soup. The mad dash to delegitimize every election result that doesn’t favor them is on. Extremely dangerous game.
The Russian efforts seem to have clearly been dwarfed by the Mexican efforts.
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Bingo, never see that mentioned by the Ministry of Propaganda.
Sounds like Mikey hasn’t gotten the baby Harp seal cure yet...
I suspect our lefty pals here are trying to figure out a way to centralize/nationalize state elections in the same way they were attempting to do the same to our police departments. "We're the Federal Government and we're here to help [control] you."
“First, they attacked our election infrastructure. They hacked into somewhere between 20 and 40 state board of elections, including, in August of 2016, my own state of Illinois. They hacked and dumped emails into political parties and individuals. They weaponized social media,”
Are you sure it wasn't the Awan family that was doing tis hacking from the safety of the US capitol? It's just a little hard to take seriously the cybersecurity concerns of the fed gov when it covers up a cybersecurity problem that thrived for years in the halls of congress; it's hard to take seriously the cybersecurity cries of a political party that sees nothing wrong with Hillary running a private server and which couldn't keep its server secure at the DNC and which wasn't treated seriously by the fed gov. But let us assume Russia did hack and dump emails - we know from the Russian propaganda posted here that they are about as subtle as the usual liberal and communist propaganda we see from the CCR, the Open Society Institute, the Sierra Club, Palestinian propaganda, and the Manmade Global Warming crowd... or even ploys for money from Nigerians posing as the wives of fallen dictators and that there are always a set of people on all sides willing to fall for it. Big deal. Just delete it.
Quigley told Michael Morell, host of CBS News’ “Intelligence Matters”
Is this Morell the former Obama official involved in Benghazi? Maybe the first step towards restoring trust in government and the press is to put a wall of separation between them, not to mix them together.
Because the only reason a Democrat would ever lose an election is Russian collusion.
The Russians have occupied the space between the Far Left’s ears.
Not hard to do given the lack of think meats in said space.
I guess it is the same Mike Morell...who openly endorsed Hillary in the last election and who in the Obama admin was replaced by a lawyer, Avril Haines.
And they wonder why no one trusts liberals when they pose as patriots or journalists when they claim to be unbiased, fai and balanced.
Mike Morrell was also the acting CIA director who pushed the false Benghazi narrative for Obama.
Stop state motor vehicle automatic registration, democratics aided voting of senile and the insane, and the illegals when verifiable ID cards would eliminate all those fears forever.
The Russians are amateurs compared to the Soros/hillary armies of Enemies Domestic at work 24/7/365 as we waste time with this endless tsunami of fake news.
True and excellent point
What the hell are they worried about? other than to shovel drek at the Republicans? Russians have ‘meddled” to no avail in American elections since at least the 30s. Uncle Sam meddles aggressively into elections all over the world and has since the Filibusters of the first part of last century. Politicians cannot help themselves. They are constantly trying to reshape other countries in ways favorable to those pols’ view of what is best for America, or today, what is best for Islam or the corporate elite or George Soros.
That has a total air of credibility and persuasiveness about it...
**YAWN**
I guess the Trump administration should send out teams to closely examine the voting rolls in 20-40 states to make sure they are free of any current or previous improper activity.
These are the same people who on J6 were screaming about how secure our elections are.
Meanwhile it was the Dems posing as Russian bots to manipulate the election in Alabama to keep Judge Moore from winning.
And this Mike Morell, along with John Brennan, Panetta, Clapper, and other former officials, were trying to manipulate the 2020 election by covering up the national security breach that is Hunter Biden and his laptop.
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